Edentata 7 - Anteater, Sloth & Armadillo Specialist Group

ferences in transcription and pronunciation. Rather
than list a dense tangle of infinite detail, we have
tried to create a useful index of active common
names, in hopes of providing an easy but thorough
reference guide.
For the Latin names we follow the working taxonomy
of the Edentate Specialist Group, as presented in Fonseca
and Aguiar (2004), which itself follows the taxonomy
of Mammal Species of the World, Second and
Third Editions (Wilson and Reeder, 1993, 2005).
We have listed the species names in alphabetical order
within each of the three major divisions of the Xenarthra;
this is a linguistic rather than a phylogenetic
display, and no particular taxonomic arrangement
is implied.
For the English common names, we rely primarily on
Wilson and Cole’s Common Names of Mammals of the
World (2000), which tracks the taxonomy presented
in Wilson and Reeder (1993). We use these names
as our default standard, and they are presented first
in the tables below. These names are generally used
by the other major sources, but in cases where they
provide different terms we have cited them individually.
Superina (2000) adds several sensible variants
which we felt should be included, and Duff and Lawson’s
recent book, Mammals of the World: A Checklist
(2004) is a valuable secondary source.
There appears to be no Spanish counterpart to Wilson
and Cole (2000), so for the primary names in Spanish
we have relied on Neotropical Rainforest Mammals
by Emmons and Feer (1997), and the three volumes
of Mammals of the Neotropics by Eisenberg and Redford
(1989, 1992, 1999). Emmons and Feer in particular
give a wealth of names in more than a dozen
languages, although their focus excludes most of the
armadillos. We have also referred to Gene Montgomery’s
1985 volume on The Evolution and Ecology of
Armadillos, Sloths, and Vermilinguas.
We have drawn the Portuguese names from several
sources, primarily Fonseca et al. (1996) and Emmons
TABLE 1. Sloths.
Latin English Spanish Local names in Spanish Portuguese
Bradypus pygmaeus pygmy sloth (Anderson
and Handley, 2001);
pygmy three-toed sloth
(Duff and Lawson,
2004)
perezoso pigmeo perico (Pn) preguiça-pigmeu (Aguiar and
Fonseca, in review)
Bradypus torquatus
Bradypus tridactylus
Bradypus variegatus
Choloepus didactylus
Choloepus hoffmanni
maned three-toed sloth;
maned sloth (Eisenberg
and Redford, 1999)
perezoso de tres
dedos
pale-throated perezoso de tres
three-toed sloth; dedos
pale-throated sloth
(Eisenberg and Redford,
1999)
brown-throated
three-toed sloth;
brown-throated sloth
(Eisenberg and Redford,
1999)
Southern two-toed
sloth; Linnaeus’s twotoed
sloth (Wilson and
Reeder, 2005)
Hoffmann’s two-toed
sloth
perezoso de tres
dedos
perezoso de dos
dedos
perezoso de dos
dedos
n/a
pereza de tres dedos guayanesa
(Ve)
aí-pixuna, preguiça-preta
(Emmons and Feer, 1997);
preguiça-de-coleira (Fonseca
et al., 1994)
aí, preguiça-de-bentinho
(Emmons and Feer, 1997);
preguiça-de-tres-dedos
(Fonseca et al., 1996)
perezoso bayo (Ar); perico (Bo); preguiça-de-bentinho (Emmons
mono perezoso, perico ligero (CA, and Feer, 1997); preguiçamarmota
(Redford, 1994);
Mex); perica ligera (CR); perezoso
de tres dedos de garganta café, preguiça-comum (Lara-Ruiz
perezoso de tres uñas (Ec); perico and Srbek-Araujo, 2006)
lerdo (Ho); pelejo (Pe); pereza de
tres dedos común (Ve)
perico ligero (Co); perezoso
amazónico de dos uñas (Ec);
cucala (Ho); pelejo (Pe)
perico ligero (Co); perica ligera
(CR); perezoso de dos uñas de
occidente (Ec); cucala, perico
lerdo (Ho); pelejo (Pe); pereza
cara amarilla, pereza de dos
dedos zuliana, pereza lanuda (Ve)
preguiça real, unau (Emmons
and Feer, 1997)
preguiça real, unau (Emmons
and Feer, 1997)
Abbreviations: Ar=Argentina; Bo=Bolivia; CA=Central America; Co=Colombia; CR=Costa Rica; Ec=Ecuador; Ho=Honduras; Mex=Mexico; Pn=Panama; Pe=Peru;
Ve=Venezuela.
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